Dottalks are breakout sessions, delivered by senior executives who will share their organization’s analytics journey including breakthroughs, challenges and key “aha” moments.

 

Transforming your business with analytics and AI
TMX Global Solutions

Facing major disruption in their industry, TMX will share why and how they adopted a results-driven analytics and AI strategy that is now an integral component to their success.

Jean Desgagné
President & CEO, TMX
Global Solutions, Insights & Analytics Strategies
Jean Desgagné is President and CEO, TMX Global Solutions, Insights and Analytics Strategies. He is responsible for a cohesive approach to delivering innovative, client-driven technology and data solutions. Prior to this role, Mr. Desgagné led TMX Global Enterprise Services, a shared service organization. Mr. Desgagné joined CDS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TMX Group, as President & CEO in 2013. He was awarded the Trudeau Medal by the Telfer School of Management and the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in 2002 in recognition of his community service.


Analytic Intelligence – it’s not about having big data it’s about what you do with it…
Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation

PMCF will share their proactive approach for maximizing their rich data resources to deliver analytic intelligence that allows for strategic data driven decision making over a 5-year plan.

Steve Merker
VP Business Development
Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation
Steve Merker leads one of the largest and most successful cycling events in Canada, Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer with over 5,000 riders cycling over 200km, over two days, from Toronto to Niagara and back. To date the Ride has raised over $175 million for cancer research at The Princess Margaret. Steve joined the Foundation in 2007. In 2016, he was recognized by Canadian Cycling Magazine as one of the most influential Canadians in the sport of cycling.


AI and machine learning: What is it, really?
Deloitte Canada

The reality of AI is revealed – learn what AI can do, what it can’t and practical steps to further your journey, presented in an engaging dialogue.

Ofer Shai
Director, Financial Advisory, Deloitte Canada
Ofer recently joined Deloitte’s Strategic Analytics and Modeling practice as Director of AI. Ofer has 15 years of experience in natural language processing, predictive and advanced analytics, recommendation systems, information retrieval, and computational biology. Ofer holds a Ph.D from the University of Toronto Machine Learning Group.

Khalid Al-Kofahi
Vice President of R&D, Thomson Reuters
Khalid Al-Kofahi is Vice President of R&D at Thomson Reuters where he leads Thomson Reuters efforts in defining and executing on AI and ML enabled products and services for the Legal, Financial & Risk, and Tax & Accounting industries. Dr. Al-Kofahi also heads the center for AI and Cognitive Computing at Thomson Reuters focusing on simplifying and transforming how professionals find information, how they interact with information and how they make decisions. During his 20+ year tenure at Thomson Reuters, Dr. Al-Kofahi led the design and development of numerous products and advanced capabilities, including text mining and analytics, data mining, large-scale classification, internet scale concordance, recommender systems, vertical search, question answering, named entity extraction and resolution, single and multi-document summarization, language generation, anomaly detection and risk mining.


The Augmented Life

Augmented Reality a phenomenon that has disrupted the world. But it’s no longer coming; it’s here. This emerging technology has the ability to change the way we see and interact with the real world, but who is defining this new form?

Helen Papagiannis
Dr. Helen Papagiannis is a world-leading expert in the field of augmented reality (AR). Author of the newly published Augmented Human: How Technology is Shaping the New Reality, the first non-technical book on the subject, Helen reveals how this technological revolution will affect us and our organizations, and identifies the opportunities that lie in this rapidly growing industry.


Innovation meets banking for fast ROI
CIBC

CIBC has built a unique design lab and engaged their ecosystem to develop use cases that leverage analytics and AI to mitigate risk and expedite time to value.

Santanu Pal
Vice President, Enterprise Advanced Analytics, CIBC
Throughout Santanu’s career, his passion has been to use his quantitative and analytical skills to solve business challenges that drive real outcomes. He joined CIBC’s advanced analytics team to be part of the transformation that’s happening at the bank. He was inspired by the opportunity to be an agent for change and to lead a diverse and multifaceted team united by a common purpose: to unleash the power of data through decision science and analytics. He’s looking forward to continuing to lead the CIBC analytics team as they drive real change and shape the bank of the future.


The Engaged Audience
Loblaw Companies Limited

How well do you know your most valuable customer? Customers are more connected than ever and know exactly what they want. Brands must focus on the values of their customers to keep them engaged – even when others tempt them away. Loblaw executives discuss how analytics and an insight driven approach are used to better understand and engage their customers.

Sat Kaur
Senior Director, Strategic Analytics
Loblaw Companies Limited
Sat Kaur is a leader in the use of customer data to drive strategic decision making in the retail industry. Sat works with senior leadership teams to help them identify trends and opportunities for growth and development in response to the changing retail landscape. Sat leads the Enterprise-wide Strategic Analytics team for the Loblaw organization, leveraging her strong experience in analytics with a customer-centric approach to identify root causes in emerging business challenges, and propose innovative solutions.

Wes Brown
Vice President, Brand Management - Retail
Loblaw Companies Limited
With over 15 years at Loblaw Companies Limited, Wes Brown has had an exciting career spanning everything from financial services, merchandising, and control brand. While much of his career has been spent in a variety of progressive marketing roles, his current responsibilities have him leading the Market Division on all retail brand, program, and shopper communications.


The customized digital journey
Abbott Nutrition Canada

If you’re seeking a highly customized online experience for your customers, join this presentation about how one healthcare organization created personalized digital journeys for its customers using database marketing.

Julie St-Pierre
Director, Commercial Services, Abbott Nutrition
Julie joined Abbott Laboratories 25 years ago, after working as a Registered Dietitian for a few years at the Ottawa Hospital. Over the years, she has occupied varied positions in Training, Sales Management, Marketing and Commercial Operations with the Nutrition, Hospital and Pharmaceutical Divisions of Abbott Laboratories. In her current role as Director of Commercial Services with the Nutrition Division; Julie leads all Commercial and Customer Operations as well as the CRM and Digital Campaign execution excellence.
Recognized for her ability to challenge the status quo and propose innovative solutions; Julie never hesitates to raise the bar to enhance and optimize commercial excellence and continue improving the holistic customer experience; both internally and externally.

Shana Nunes, CPA, CA
CRM & Digital Programs Manager, Abbott Nutrition
Shana Nunes is a Chartered Professional Accountant and Deloitte Alumni with over 14 years of audit, financial analysis, & budget management experience. Known for constantly seeking to surpass the status quo, quick decision making and flawless delivery under pressure, Shana has led the CRM database marketing programs transformation for the Canadian Nutrition division at Abbott Laboratories, Ltd. over the past two years. Shana thrives on solving key business challenges by analyzing data from a financial, operational, and performance perspective and translating findings into actionable program optimizations to better support members in their CRM program journey. In 2014, she was awarded the Abbott Julie Short Award of Excellence for her tenacity and leadership skills.


 

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